Digital writer/researcher, interactive narratives for health & scicomm. she/her. Opinions mine. #scicomm #digitalfiction @wonderboxpub @PlayableComms
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Joined September 2009
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Popping in to share how thrilled and honored I am to have won the N. Katherine Hayles award for criticism in @eliterature this year for bit.ly/NEStories! So excited to be listed among amazing women and nonbinary folks, too - kudos for the sweep, my friends and sestras.
Beyond thrilled to be @BlackwellLiv for the launch of @EmmaMVenables's #FragmentsOfAWoman from @AderynPress. Massive congrats on a wonderful book!
ALT The author in conversation with interviewer, book placed between them.
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Slightly later than anticipated due to being ill, but my X-Files book has gone to my editors!
Super excited to receive my ARC of @EmmaMVenables's #FragmentsOfAWoman today from @AderynPress! Isn't the cover gorgeous, y'all?
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Table is set for speed-collaboration session at our @SHDCresearch ‘not so away day’🤓💞🤓 hosted by @lskains
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Happy to see Neverending Stories by Lyle Skains (Bournemouth University) published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It was a great pleasure to be invited to endorse this significant book.
bloomsbury.com/us/neverendin… @eliterature @BloomsburyAcad @lskains
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Helping identify new ways to collaborate with colleagues at BU's @SHDCresearch for the benefit of patients and staff at UHD. Great energy - Thanks @lskains @drfigtree for the invite! #BUUHDReseach @UHD_NHS @UHDResearch
Looks like some research romances are budding at our #collaboration speed dates @SHDCresearch @BU_Research
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Incredible to see that we've had 1050 playthroughs of @lskains 's digital fiction No World 4 Tomorrow.
If you want to have a go yourself, go over to our website
youandco2.org/NW4T
Free to play.
#digitalfiction #coding
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T&T faculty @lucidbard and @AnaSalter recently published "Mapping the Unmappable: Reimagining Visual Representations of Interactive Narrative." Check it out! link.springer.com/chapter/10…
Thanks to @NancySendler's preview of her #DisappearingDandelions work, the whole #Unconf23 now knows of my (unhealthy?) obsession with @BarnsCourtney. I will not apologize.
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It’s perfectly normal for the first year of your PhD to be particularly… messy.
My second bout is lasting MUCH longer than the first. It's made me increasingly paranoid.
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JKR is a racist, transphobic bigot who exploits her global platform to promote transphobic moral panic.
Being called out on bigotry isn’t abuse, some people abusing bigots doesn’t justify their bigotry.
“I don’t like the way she’s been treated”
Succession actor Brian Cox defends author JK Rowling and her campaigning on issues relating to gender
#BBCLauraK bbc.in/3XeOulI
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Let me explain what happens when you send upsetting emails late on a Friday: it affects the mental health of that person all weekend; it affects their 'downtime'; it affects their interactions with others; it makes them anxious; they have no power of response. DON'T DO IT.
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the hardest and most devastating part of a woman’s life is when it’s time to get up from the sofa and go to bed
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After a bit of a hiatus due to job changes and illness, the dream team of @drhelenross @jruddchemist and @lskains are back on it today.
We're revising a research paper on YCO2's most recent airing at a Welsh school. Looking forward to sharing it with you "soon"!
I missed the publication of my @BloomsburyBooks book "Neverending Stories: The Popular Emergence of #DigitalFiction" because I was down with Covid. Get your library to buy it today! #elit #narrative #InteractiveFiction #VisualNovels #FanFiction #XR bloomsbury.com/uk/neverendin…
ALT Cover art for the book featuring the words "NEVER", "ENDING", and "STORIES" as different levels of a gameworld.
Y'all, I actually got seal footage this time. She hung around, playing, for about 5 minutes. But I was at the end of my swim & my hands were cold, so the footage is not great. But you can actually see a seal! Not at all zoomed in, tho I missed when she was swimming all around me.
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Have you thought about writing a script addressing climate change?
The Hot House, a development lab for scripted TV and film projects, will open for submissions on 1st Dec.
Join this free online event on 23rd Nov to find out more. bit.ly/3zFSeTE
ALT The logos for the BBC Writersroom, BFI and Climate Spring set over a white background